Karen,
I don't have any direct experience with Codeigniter, but from what I
can glean from their documentation, comparing it to Drupal or
Wordpress may be a apples/oranges comparison.
Drupal and Wordpress are full content managment systems with core
support for user accounts, writing content, applying taxonomies, and
grouping content together. CI is a framework that you could use to
build your site, but have to code every page and form. It's a smaller
footprint for sure, but you're basically given the pieces and tools to
build something from scratch.
-Eric
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Mark Jordan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Karen,
>
> I used CI for a project last summer, and thought it was easy to learn if you had done some PHP programming before and were familiar with MVC architecture, well documented, and had a fairly rich feature set. However, my impression is that it had a very small plugin/module ecosystem compared to Drupal or Wordpress. Before recommending it, you should review the categories under 'Contributions' at http://codeigniter.com/wiki to see if you can identify any glaring holes. But, overall, I'd say it's a pretty good PHP MVC framework (not that I've compared a lot of them).
>
> Mark
>
> Mark Jordan
> Head of Library Systems
> W.A.C. Bennett Library, Simon Fraser University
> Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> I'm helping some folks find a new platform for their web site, and
>> someone has suggested codeIgniter as being simpler than Drupal or
>> Wordpress. Anyone here have anything to say about it, good or bad? The
>> site is small and light weight but it does have a database that needs
>> to be managed.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> kc
>>
>> --
>> Karen Coyle
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>> ph: 1-510-540-7596
>> m: 1-510-435-8234
>> skype: kcoylenet
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